Mission:
To continue to utilize 50 plus years of our family managed corporate experiences, excellent customer service, quality and business ethics. To build off of small, medium and large residential repair and remodel installs. Staying on course delivering smart living choices for the lifestyle of our clients. Be leaders in earth-friendly remodeling and home improvement solutions no matter how the conventional market is competing with cheaper products. To champion the effort for delivering utility cost-saving, cutting edge go green products and services. To continue educating others about the importance of going green with your home now and why it is imperative to our families health and our economical future. To show home owners how to take control of their utility cost, limiting waste, repair time, saving money and recoup square footage in their home or office. Helping American homes become equipped with 21century products and services...
Vision:
Help home owners increase their home equity, encapsulate new & old homes with energy efficient products. Explain the many ways Americans squander millions of dollars each month on unused energy. To be the premier provider for energy-efficient, cost saving products, installations and home improvement services. To set the example for an eco-friendly remodeling based home improvement provider through education and training. To build greener homes from the ground up creating different regional climate LEED templates. To support go green laws, tax incentives and rebates voting for ethics. To provide investors and consumers with an alternative choice and encourage smarter living.
Frederick A. Charles Sr. a Washington DC native and current President/CEO of Charles and Sons Remodeling Inc. a family based business in existence since 1960's. The eco friendly company is well established with a concentration in energy efficient solutions, architectural and drafting design. Since the age of 12 he worked with John Charles Sr. at Charles Home Improvement. He then began his love of this remodeling, HVAC & plumbing craft becoming disciplined, focused on quality, equipment control, and labor management. At the age of 21 he attended architectural drafting school at Maryland Drafting Institute. He worked with the major DMV based CLARK Construction Company as a blueprint layout and lead stairwell builder leading a crew of eight men. In his 20's he opened his first business in Florida named "Live Better Home Improvement" with obvious intentions for his clients and his passion for healthy living and comfortable dwellings. Returning to Washington DC in 2001 to the family business at the request of his father and business mentor John Charles Sr.(pictured left) he began to rebuild the company under these new environmental conscious principals.
In 2005, Frederick Charles Sr. was hired and educated in more environmentally conscious products and services by Keith Ware through Washington DC’s first all environmentally sustainable based eco friendly store downtown named "Future Green". There he shared a broader education on reducing wasteful energy consumption, unnecessary harmful chemical product exposures and fair trade. Keeping good pace with EPA standers while offering the latest in commercial and residential home design. Our "Eco Friends" (not just customers) practice smart living and support environmentally loyal companies like ours. Through energy efficiency and healthier building solutions Frederick Charles Sr. continues his passion for professional services by having completed but always continuing his education in HVAC certifications and licensing.